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MySpace and MTV Team Up for One-on-One Presidential Dialogues (CNET)
In an appeal to the coveted youth vote in the upcoming presidential elections, MySpace and MTV announced today that they have joined forces for a series of "one-on-one dialogues" with all the major candidates from both political parties — televised and Webcast events in which presidential hopefuls will answer questions from MySpace members and MTV watchers. BusinessWeek: Will the youthful audiences at the social networking site and music channel care? SF Chron: Former Sen. John Edwards will be the first to take the stage on Sept. 27. Hollywood Reporter: The venture is part of MTV's political activism campaign "Choose or Lose," which first launched in 1992. It also comes under the auspices of MySpace's Impact Channel.

Senator and Filmmaker Take on Fox News (AP)
Condemning the Fox News Channel as a warmonger that's agitating for a U.S. attack on Iran, documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald and independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced an "online viral video campaign" yesterday calling on television news organizations "not to follow Fox down the road to war again."

Cable Nets Doubling Broadcast TV's Ratings (TV Week)
Cable is having a "record-setting, precedent-setting summer," according to Jack Wakshlag, chief research officer of Turner Broadcasting. For the first summer ever, ad-supported cable will have doubled the viewership of broadcast TV in prime time, with a 52.4 share, compared to 24.2 for the six major English-language broadcast networks.

Iraqi Journalist Finds a Place on Washington Post Metro Desk (CSM)
Omar Fekeiki's path to the Post was serendipitous. On April 17, 2003, eight days after Saddam Hussein's government fell, he spotted Mary Beth Sheridan, a Post reporter, trying to conduct an interview in Baghdad and asked if he could help. Not long afterwards, Fekeiki was hired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, then the Post's Baghdad bureau chief.

The Feminization of the Internet (Guardian)
For years cyberspace has been tailored to an audience of mainly young men but now women Web users have taken the lead in key age groups in the U.K. "For the first time this year women are spending more time on the Internet than men," says Peter Phillips of Ofcom. "It's a big shift and has implications for the kind of content that content providers want to have on the Internet."

Disney Publishing to End Its Adventures (Mediaweek)
Disney Publishing Worldwide will fold Disney Adventures after the November issue to focus on new magazine and book efforts, a company spokesperson said. Publisher Mary Beth Wright will stay at Disney Publishing as the publisher of parenting title FamilyFun. The fate of the editor and other staffers has not been determined.

TV Academy Cracks Down on Producer Credit Inflation (Variety)
The organization has installed a more vigorous vetting process this year to ensure that producers attached to Emmy-nominated series, specials and longforms are truly deserving of the honor. For the second year in a row, the group has capped the number of individuals who can win a comedy series Emmy at 11. On the drama side, the cap stands at 10.

MySpace Serial Afterworld Is Melding Different Kinds of Media (LAT)
First was lonelygirl15, a fictionalized series of confessional video blogs on YouTube made by an actress posing as a home-schooled girl. Then came "Prom Queen," a Web teen soap opera backed by former Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner. Now there's Afterworld, an online animated series about a man who wakes up to find most of the world's population has vanished.

While Rival Struggles, CJR Says It's in the Black (E&P)
While the American Journalism Review is apparently $200,000 in debt with threats of closure, its counterpart, the Columbia Journalism Review, is having its best financial year ever, according to executive editor Mike Hoyt. Hoyt, who has led the newsroom for four years, says his publication is about $50,000 in the black, with estimates of a $40,000 surplus in 2008. CJR: The news that our colleague and competitor, the American Journalism Review, is on thin financial ice this year is bad news, and smart journalists everywhere are wishing the magazine a quick and enduring recovery, writes Hoyt.

Do Soldiers Have the Right to Write Jaw-Dropping Op-Eds? (Slate)
The New York Times published an op-ed on Sunday by seven infantrymen and noncommissioned officers serving in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne. The writers expressed skepticism "of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable" and went on to describe Iraq as a "lawless environment." Are Army personnel free to publicize their opinions? Yes, as long as they clear a security review.

YouTube Users Rant, Threaten to Leave Over New Ads (IDG News Service via ComputerWorld)
Dan Nystedt: Most users responding to a YouTube blog post asking for feedback gave the idea a resounding thumbs down, and one even made a video to share his displeasure. The responses may best be summarized by the first post: "Yuck" wrote user quepasakoolj18, of Oro Valley, Arizona.

The Journalism that Bloggers Actually Do (LAT)
Jay Rosen: No one owns the practice of reporting or assigns the right to do it. It's a democratic thing to tell others what's going on and "show your work." Some people will not be deterred from doing that. Most of them don't care what you call them. They do care if their story stands up. National Journal/Beltway Blogroll: The rivalry between bloggers and journalists is still going strong, and it has left both fighters with eyes swollen shut, writes Danny Glover.

Drudge Barks, TV News Bites (CJR)
Liz Cox Barrett: Thank you, Matt Drudge, for providing us all with a brief respite from what might have otherwise been yet another ho-hum August day of campaign reporting. Because who cares what candidates are saying about Iraq or Cuba or assault rifles when "OBAMA WIFE SLAMS HILLARY?" (as Drudge casually wondered aloud across the top of his Web site yesterday morning). Cat fight!

My Beloved Newspaper Has Been Reduced to Serving Already Chewed News (Slate)
Jack Shafer: The more I graze the Web for news, the less compelling I find the four daily newspapers that land on my doorstep. Even if all I've pre-read from the Web are the Page One headlines, the print stories don't really pop out at me unless they're packaged with a terrific photo I haven't seen before. Horrible as it may sound, on many days the newsprint front page tastes of already chewed gum.

Resurrecting the Champ Gets Journalism Right, and That's a Grind (LA Weekly)
Robert Wilonsky: Resurrecting the Champ is a great movie about journalism — maybe the best there ever was — because Resurrecting the Champ is mind-erasingly boring. It's a solid story about the newspaper business if only because watching it will render you unconscious for nearly two hours.